Monthly Archives: September 2021

September 23rd 2021 Cell-free chemoenzymatic starch synthesis from carbon dioxide. Chinese scientists recently reported a de novo route for artificial starch synthesis from carbon dioxide (CO2) for the first time. Relevant results are published in Science on Sept. 24. The … Continue reading →

September 17th 2021 Agrana announces €25m investment in Austrian plant capacity. Austrian food company Agrana has announced a €25 million investment in additional capacity at its three starch factories. The Agrana plant in Gmünd began receiving deliveries of starch potatoes … Continue reading →

September 15th 2021 France’s Tereos to sell Chinese starch business to Wilmar’s YKA. French sugar group Tereos is selling its minority stake in two Chinese starch joint ventures to Yihai Kerry Arawana Holdings (YKA), the Chinese subsidiary of Singapore’s Wilmar … Continue reading →

August 31st 2021 Increasing sugar availability for oil synthesis. A team from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) has bred a plant that produces more oil by manipulating the availability of sugar for oil synthesis. The team, … Continue reading →

August 24th 2021 First CRISPR-edited wheat grown in Europe to be planted this autumn. UK research institute Rothamsted Research, a pioneer of GM crop trials since the 1990s, has been granted permission by Defra to run a series of field … Continue reading →